Uranium price: best performer of 2018 set for more gains
New report forecasts sustained structural deficit for uranium market and more gains for uranium price, up more than 20% this year.
Frik Els , Editor
Frik has 20 years’ experience as a business journalist across a range of industries including automotive, technology and entertainment markets. Frik has an entry in Global Mining Observer’s Who’s Who of Mining 2018, and contributions to publications and conferences including Business Insider, Investing.com, Mines & Money London and New York, Vancouver Resources Investment, Progressive Mine Forum in Toronto and Canadian Mining Symposium in London, UK. He’s been interviewed on CBC Radio and Korea State TV and quoted in the Financial Post.
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This Congo project could supply the world with lithium
The DRC has a stranglehold on crucial battery material cobalt, but central African nation also has potential to become major lithium player.
Trade truce lights fire under mining stocks
Relief that an escalation in the trade war between the US and China has been avoided – at least for now – sparked a huge rally in mining stocks on Monday.
The lithium price bulls were right
OK; half right.
Iron ore price craters 8%
Fears over slowing Chinese growth and impact of trade war with the US removes floor under iron ore price.
Sinking shipping gauge signals trouble for iron ore, coal price
Rates for dry bulk cargo carriers have collapsed 70% since August.
Cobalt prices could rally 30% by mid-2019
Glencore's suspension of Congo exports shows how cobalt production expansion plans can go awry.
Surging US steel helps iron ore price to 9-month high
Global steel production stays strong in September with Chinese furnaces blasting at near record pace and US output surging 9%.
Copper price drop prompts expansion rethink at top producer
Freeport-McMoRan CEO Richard Adkerson says reduced spending on large-scale projects will add to the impending supply gap on global copper markets.
Vanadium price leaps to near-record high
New rebar standards in China and spiking demand from green energy storage sector pushes vanadium up 550% in two years.
Top 50 mining companies power through Iran war – up $250 billion in 2026
The world’s 50 biggest mining stocks shrug off global turmoil, hitting a combined $2.4 trillion value in Q1, but the tide did not lift all boats.